Lean
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Lacking excess flesh
"You can't be too rich or too thin"
"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
(2)   Not profitable or prosperous
"A lean year"
(3)   Lacking in mineral content or combustible material
"Lean ore"
"Lean fuel"
(4)   Containing little excess
"A lean budget"
"A skimpy allowance"

noun


(5)   The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
"The tower had a pronounced tilt"
"The ship developed a list to starboard"
"He walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

verb


(6)   Cause to lean or incline
"He leaned his rifle against the wall"
(7)   To incline or bend from a vertical position
"She leaned over the banister"
(8)   Cause to lean to the side
"Erosion listed the old tree"
(9)   Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
"She tends to be nervous before her lectures"
"These dresses run small"
"He inclined to corpulence"
WiktionaryText

Verb


  1. To hang outwards.
  2. To press against.

Adjective



  1. slim; not fleshy.
  2. having little fat.
  3. Having little extra or little to spare.
    a lean budget
  4. Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
 
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